Google has acquired the team behind Jetpac, an iPhone app for crowdsourcing city guides from public Instagram photos. The app will be pulled from the App Store in coming days, and support for the service will be discontinued on September 15. Jetpac’s deep learning software used a nifty trick of scanning our photos to evaluate businesses and venues around town. As MIT Technology Review notes, the app could tell whether visitors were tourists, whether a bar is dog-friendly and how fancy a place was. It even employed humans to find_hipster spots by tracking the_number of mustaches and plaid shirts. Interestingly,...
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